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The ‘female SuperM’, K-pop group Girls on Top to feature Aespa pair, BoA, Taeyeon of Girls’ Generation and other familiar faces

  • Girls on Top, supergroup formed by SM Entertainment, the label behind the boy-band equivalent SuperM, features seven of K-pop’s biggest female stars
  • Newly announced, the group are slated to perform at the label’s New Year concert on January 1 and release their first song two days later

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Girls on Top, a newly formed K-pop female supergroup, includes some of the biggest names in Korean pop and will make their debut in a New Year concert on January 1. Photo: SM Entertainment
Tamar Herman

K-pop fans rejoice: Girls on Top is coming, a group featuring some of the biggest names of the past two decades.

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The new group, formed by South Korean media giant SM Entertainment, features soloist BoA, Girls’ Generation’s Taeyeon and Hyoyeon, Red Velvet’s Wendy and Seulgi, and Aespa’s Winter and Karina.

Girls On Top are slated to perform together for the first time on New Year’s Day at SM Entertainment’s New Year concert, and their first song will be released on January 3.

Each of the singers and their respective groups have, at various times over the past two decades, fronted K-pop’s rise to global popularity.

Girls On Top shares a name with BoA’s 2005 single and album of the same name. Active since 2000, the now 35-year-old singer is considered one of the leading icons of K-pop.

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Girls’ Generation, meanwhile, was formed in 2007, and became known as one of the biggest names in K-pop in the years that followed, with viral hits like Gee in 2009 and I Got A Boy in 2013 shaping the music industry’s growth.
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